On a better note - JT and I went out into Nightmare land on our own thinking someone awesome would jump in our lobby with us. We went ahead and started a NM, Me on 14 Katari and he on S-Bus lv 16. 14 is not a level we do NM on without our friends.
So halfway through the first board we have a Reaver join - JT informs me "He's in the inquisition jogging suit... I think we're screwed" we proceed to watch the Reaver kill himself with his dragon rage - three times. So an Avvar joins, also in the inquisition jogging suit. He actually kills something before dying. By the way... we got Venatori heavy on the mages and assassins, light on the brutes and hyenas.
We get to the next board - Reaver is down, killed by self within 30 seconds. Avvar makes it through and is killed by Dragon walking to next board.
Third board - it all goes bad. Reaver is killed by dragon when we open the door, Avvar makes it about 2 minutes in. All assassins and mages. Glyphs for DAYS everywhere, glyphs on glyphs on glyphs and freaking assassins stripping guard and barrier. This was the LONGEST freaking board of my life. So JT (who actually plays a bang up support S-Bus) alternates between knocking down the assassins with barrier, and giving me rings so that I can play blender with my Dancer's axe. It took FOREVER. About half way through the Reaver quits out so we are both hoping that someone with some skill is about to pop in and help us with the disaster. In comes - ANOTHER REAVER also in the Jogging suit. At this point we both just start laughing and resign ourselves to wiping. New reaver runs in, kills an assassin, gets killed by a stack of 90 glyphs. Somehow we made it to the next board.
JT and I decide to take bets on who is going down first - New Reaver, Avvar, or Inquisition Captain. JT's bet was on New Reaver, I was still debating when the Inquisition Captain charged out leapt on a glyph and took a snowball to the face... Apparently Inquisition Captain wasn't about to be out killed by these new guys. So we look - shield guys and mages... Since I'm not cool enough to PI, shield guys take me forever to get through. By this point JT and I had a good rhythm down, it wasn't speedy but it was effective. Avvar made it up to the top half of the board (GO AVVAR!) and it was just the two of us again. When we finally finished I had to ask "JT, tell me you have curse, please god tell me you have curse because if not it's just me and this dragon and this will be a 90 minute nightmare"
JT had curse
when the dust settled he says "you realize we just two manned a nightmare with double buffs on the enemy right?" I asked him if that was an accomplishment or the beginning of the apocalypse.
good times 